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The poetic Edda

Note 8 — The Ballad of Svipdag

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Horn and Ruth: these two rivers, here used merely to symbolize all dangerous streams, are not included in the catalogue of rivers given in Grimnismol, 27–29, for which reason some editors have changed the names to Hron and Hrith.

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